General Prerequisites: B5.3 Viscous Flow and B5.4 Waves and Compressible Flow are both highly recommended, Viscous Flow being the more essential of the two. It will be necessary that you will have previously studied some Fluid Dynamics and have an understanding of the derivation of the Navier-Stokes equations and their associated boundary conditions.
Course Overview: The course will expand and illuminate the `classical' fluid mechanics taught in the third year B5.3 and B5.4 courses, and illustrate its modern application in a number of different areas in industry and geoscience.
Lecturer(s):
Prof. Andrew Fowler
Course Synopsis: Thin film flows. Droplet dynamics. Foam drainage. Porous media.
Convection, boundary layer theory. Double-diffusive convection, plumes, turbidity currents.
Rotating flows, geostrophy and quasi-geostrophy, baroclinic instability.
Two-phase flows. Two-fluid models. Density wave oscillations.
